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THE FLORIST. 
shift must be tolerated to keep any old plants of this kind through 
the winter. Keep the sashes of the house open every mild day and 
night also for the first half of the month, and very little water will be 
required except for Chrysanthemums, which will now be getting into 
bloom, and should have every attention. The house should be kept 
as dry as can be done without having recourse to fires for the present. 
Flower Garden :—Newly struck cuttings of Verbenas, Salvias, 
Petunias, and similar things, should be well exposed on fine days, to 
harden them for the winter; it will prevent them from fogging off, and 
when the weather is bad tilt the sashes of the frames up both back and 
front, to let the air circulate freely through them. The same treatment 
applies to bedding Geraniums. Keep Calceolarias close but free from 
damp until they have formed roots, when more air may be given them. 
Clear the borders now from all that remains of bedding plants, and fill 
up as recommended last month, adding a few patches of annual seeds 
sown now for flowering in April; of these Collinsia bicolor and grandi- 
flora, Clarkia pulehella and elegans, the Candytufts, Escholtzia crocea 
and tenuifolia, Gilia tricolor and capitata, Erysimum Peroffskianum 
and Nemophila insignis, may be named as affording a pretty contrast. 
They should be sown at once, and will bloom in May, many of them in 
April. Those ladies who have not got Tritoma uvaria should at once 
order it, as it is one of the most showy herbaceous plants we have; six 
or eight roots will make a fine bed for next summer. Save seed of 
Salvia patens, Lobelia Erinus speciosa, and Neirembergia filicaulis, as 
they do better from seed than from cuttings. 
Shrubbery .—Now is the best time to transplant any kind of ever¬ 
green or deciduous shrubs or trees, and .also for preparing beds for 
American plants and Roseries. In getting shrubs from the nursery 
give the men some small present to take the trees, &c., up with all 
roots attached to them, as they usually lift so carelessly that one-half 
the roots are cut off close to the stem to save trouble. 
STRAWBERRIES. 
Messrs. Vilmorin, Andrieux, & Co., 30, Quai de la Megisserie, 
Paris, have sent me their catalogue of “ Fraisiers,” anciennes et nou- 
velle. Of the “ anciennes ” there are 74 sorts. The following are 
marked for forcing:—Des Alpes ou Des Quatre Saisons, Du Chili, 
Queen Victoria (Myatt's), Black Prince, Princess Royal, Comtesse de 
Marnes, Eleanor, Prince of Wales, Sir Charles Napier, Sir Harry, and 
these two, which are thus described—1. Keens’ Seedling. “ Fruit 
moyen, rouge vif, chair pleine, sueree, juteuse, de gout releve, de bonne 
quality ; hatif, rustique, et fertile; convient bien pour la culture 
force, mais apres la premiere cueille les fruits sont trop petits.” I do 
not understand French; but, if the last clause means they are small, 
I wish Vilmorin & Andrieux would pay me a visit in July. My plants 
with their roots would fill a Winchester bushel. The fruit this year 
has been very large and abundant. The plants are now in full new 
leaf, and look like a small field of Rape. This and the next defied the 
